New Year’s Eve Quotes and Sayings

New Year’s Eve is a fabulous time for making goals, celebrating the rebirth of the year, and forgiving for mistakes in the old year. These quotes, sayings and phrases are perfect for scrapbooking, card making, decorating for a New Year’s party, or whatever occasion makes you need the saying.

New Year’s Even Quotes About Birthdays and New Beginnings

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~ Charles Lamb

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~ Hal Borland

The merry year is born.
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. ~ Hartley Coleridge

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

New Year’s Eve Quotes About Resolutions

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~ Author Unknown

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~ Author Unknown

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. ~ Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities. ~ Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~ John Burroughs

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~ Anaïs Nin

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~ G.K. Chesterton

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s. ~ Henry Moore

New Year’s Eve Quotes About Staying Up or Party

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~ Bill Vaughn

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~ Bill Vaughan

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~ Author Unknown

Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer. ~ Walter Scott

Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~ Charles Lamb